I am afraid the party is now realising it cannot be both left-leaning in Labour areas and right-leaning in Tory ones.

Consistency is the price you have to pay for power, and that is the choice the party overwhelmingly made at its special conference last year.

To be fair Nich, you predicted that this would happen - preferring the purity of opposition. You were massively outvoted by the rest of the party, who probably didn't think this through as much as you.